Kirton Island
| Kirton Island | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Archipelago | Robinson group | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 30 ′ S , 63 ° 38 ′ E | |
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| Highest elevation | 30 m | |
Kirton Island is a small island off the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is located 5 km west of Cape Daly and is part of the Robinson group .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them in 1947 based on aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named the island in 1960 after Malcolm Kirton (* 1932), a geophysicist at Mawson Station in 1959.
Web links
- Kirton Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kirton Island on geographic.org (English)